Staged just nine times in 32 years, the last in February, the “Eddie” brings a sort of spur-of-the-moment beach holiday, along with traffic gridlock, to the North Shore. It’s difficult to imagine a winter big-wave surfing season getting underway without talk about the chances for the prestigious contest’s required 20-foot waves rolling into Waimea Bay.

Over the weekend, it was announced that due in part to permit-related snags, the event likely would not be held this season. Here’s hoping that city attorneys and others now scrambling to find a way to resolve tournament park permit issues and other matters are able to keep the “In Memory of Eddie Aikau” afloat.

Parking in Waikiki will get tougher

The trend lines all point toward a future that won’t make Waikiki residents any happier.

The city is proposing the conversion of more parking stalls to metered parking, and residents who use them for overnight parking are worried that they will be forced to pay for parking.

But with the push to create a multimodal transportation system and to encourage people to use transit, city policy is increasingly likely to discourage street parking in the urban core.

It seems residents in these neighborhoods soon will have to factor parking into their budget, or give up their wheels.